korean battle.net website http://bit.ly/1eSbeQW
korean battle.net website http://bit.ly/1eSbeQW
Nice, I'm sure a user here on mmo champ thought he saw this coming, Benbos I think it was.
We've known about this for months at this point.
So what are Battle Coins, just a replacement for "blizzard balance"? You buy coins for real money and then spend the coins on in-game products?
correct me if i'm wrong, but aren't most games in the asian region based on micro transactions? This is how they make most of their revenue. I have played some games that required you to buy stuff in order to do harder content.
In this instance blizz is just giving people there the means to level their characters faster. Why is it so bad?
my 2cents.
Micro transactions are the way of the future, so many FTP games out there in so many different genres that have micro transactions as this is their main revenue.
I bought GTA 5 on the xbox yesterday, and there is a feature there to buy stuff from the xbox shop, even though i paid $80 for the game, eventually if I want to upgrade stuff I will have to get my CC out and use it.(mind you they've had these features since Xbox live became active)
WoW has had a game shop for some time now, micro transactions are happening in Asia and they will eventually happen in the US/EU. Its not necessarily a bad thing, just the way the gaming industry is going and WoW isn't immune to this.(my opinion ofc)
No, but you want people to take the bait and do it. Why else would you create the thread with such a title. Could have word it... "Battle net coins, go live on asian market."
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Go do some digging around the asian gaming market and you will notice that most if not all their games are micro transaction based. This model has not worked on the US or EU markets.
Ofc they have been there before WoW but look at how many games these days have them? Micro transactions are very popular these days and gaming companies know this. It is the way of the future when it comes to gaming, look at how many games you can download on your smart phone for nothing? But they are full of micro transaction game shops. Rift? LoL? Swtor? World of Tanks? regardless if you think those games are bad, they survive because of micro transactions.
WoW isn't immune to this and if you think WoW won't or shouldn't have micro transactions in the game then you are kidding yourself.
Heck, if they make it so you can buy coins from other players with in game gold like in GW2, I'd love having that implemented over here. I'd finally be able to look at their online shop as something worth browsing rather than something that sucks resources from the real product.
I would buy exp buffs in a second, so long as they were reasonably priced. 85 to 90 is the worst.
So question, if this is for Asian countries only(like some keep saying) why is the text in English? Seems like a complete waste of time translating something that's for Asian countries only into English if they only plan to keep it in Asia.
I don't know why the fuck they are called "micro" transactions. You can't buy shit for less than 10 euros, what the fuck is micro about that? If this is the online games future, my future is in single player games. That don't have a fucking day 1 on-disk DLC